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Farming & the land, 1936

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Promising Wool Prospects. Japan's Activity

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 21

Winchcombe Carson Ltd., reports:—The five principal wool exporting countries in the world are Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina, and Uruguay. This season South African…

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Big Offering Wool Values Firm

The Sun · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 12

Under very strong general competition the market at to-day's wool sales ruled fully firm on Monday's levels. There was a particularly…

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Wool Outlook Still Very Favorable

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 12

Provided nothing unexpected occurs to disturb trade, the. sheep's staple has excellent prospects of continuing to sell freely at most acceptable…

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Wool Sales. London. London, Jan. 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 21

The London wool sales were resumed to-day with an offering of 8392 bales, of which 7630 were sold. The catalogue included 2049 bales from New South Wales, 1584 Queensland, 1610 Victorian, 212 South…

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Australian Wool Trade. Empire-wide Publicity Campaign Suggested

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 4

After having thoroughly investigated the Australian wool industry during a tour lasting several months, Lord Barnby, head of the Bradford wool firm of Francis…

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Overseas Market Cables. Bradford Wool Tops. London, Jan. 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 21

The markets are dull, largely owing to anxiety in regard to the King's health. The Bradford wool tops market is firm. There is little new business, but consumption is fully maintained…

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Wool Trade. Japanese Demand. Expansion Predicted. Tokyo, Jan. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 12

References to the wool industry, as it affects Australia and Japan, constituted the keynote of speeches at a banquet given by the Japan-Australia Society in honour of Dr. Clunies…

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8d TO 18¾d Good Clearance of Wool at Auckland Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 12

AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--At the second Auckland sales of the season over 28,000 bales of wool were offered, ol which 85 per cent, was sold…

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Oversea Wheat Position. Lindley Walker Company's Special Report. Cur cable this week reads:—

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 3

"New South Wales February shipment valued at 31/9 per qr. Steady— rumoured French Government embargo or restriction of exports owing…

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Daring Experiment with Stagnant Nation Wheat and Chaff of New Deal Sifted Behind the Cables

The World's News · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 4

IN the last twenty-seven months, the United States have been vitally concerned with a move which is unique in the history…

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Fur Farmers

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 4

Fur farming is an old-established business in Canada, and it will come as a surprise to many to learn that one-third of the pelts from that country come from…

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Phil Badier's Prickly Pear Farm How to Defeat the Drought

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 6

A BOUT ten years ago the present writer contributed a series of articles on…

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Turf Facts I & Fancies Well-backed Winners. Score at Warwick Farm. McCarten's Hat Trick

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 9

DESPITE the heavy rains of last week all racing fixtures were run according to schedule, while the A.J.C. Meeting at Warwick Farm on Saturday attracted a…

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Boy Dies From Whipping. Brutal Farmer Punished

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 7

An eleven-year-old native boy has died from the effects of a brutal thrashing inflicted on him by a Transvaal farmer. The lad was tied to a pole, lashed 30 or…

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Cowra Experimental Farm, N.S.W.

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 10

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Queensland Sugar Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 21

December was characterised by a comparative failure of the rains usually received at that time of the year over the North Queensland sugar areas, says "The Australian Sugar…

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On the Land Dairying Abroad. Studies in Many Countries. Extensive Tour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 13

Mr. Loftus Hills, B.Sc. Agr., dairy technologist of the Victorian Department of Agriculture, has written an interesting review of the dairying industries in Europe, America,…

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Strip Cropping. Contro of Soil Erosion. Stimulus to Terracing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 13

To prevent soil erosion in the United States a system of strip cropping is recommended. This consists of planting strips of denselygrowing feed or grain crops along the…

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Wheat Wool Dairying

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 40

It is generally admitted by farmers in all districts "that the natural pastures are not nearly as good as they were many years ago." Proof of this…

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A Wheat and Wool Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 15

PNOGY [?] (Dingaral.—I would like to be a member of your page. I am eleven years old, and live on a wheat and wool farm seven miles from pingers. For my pets I…

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